Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1939 — Page 13

TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1939 Veterans of Roarin’ Way |g Go Reeling’

Some Drive, Some Stunt And Others Are Even Directors.

By HARRY MORRISON Hollywood, ace hunting grounds) for America’s leading racers. Land | of promise. Land of fortune. |

It's to Hollywood and the movie studios | the drivers go to act as technical | experts, drivers, stuntmen and even | directors. Babe Stapp, driving that red job in today’s race, has been technical adviser on so many pictures he's lost count. His latest is “Devil on Wheels,” with John Payne. “This technical expert thing is something a lot of folk laugh at,” he said, “but I was surprised how little the movie people know about the paraphernalia of racing.”

What! No AAA Man?

“You take a scene where a car | i rin there. We haven's #ot any comes into a pit. How many me-| uniform there. We he RO! Sn)

: : {cops there chanics should there be in the pit? | And the first time they were setting]| Sam Hanks is out at the lg up the shot I noticed there ‘wasn't | 100: He won't be racing because he anv AAA man there. hasn't qualified in this association “Why, our ‘man would have been|Yc" He's just a young fellow who's

‘ : been doing a lot of racing on the ¥ hp! - » DS SiSighinen before he'd hardly Coast and next year he plans to do

. ._y|the 500-mile. “Then there are all the special] : » : : I came up here expecting to go cranks and tools and racing jacks.|,. “ ; ) Everything has to be authentic.” he declared, “and I'd have qualified,

: A I'm sure, but they wouldn't let me “Devil on Wheels” was a remake trv.” : , of an earlier film and they used He worked with the “Burn 'Em Up rs n firs pO Yong : : Is : Dd ences from the first Pro-|6oonnor” company driving in the

: sequences for Denis O'Keefe. “We've changed helmet style. We a >

used to use cloth crash helmets, so of course, I had to get hold of some of the earlier helmets so they'd fit in.” Babe had charge of building the pits and the surrounding grandstand to look exactly like the Speedway.

mile race. The "Duncan-Martin

An Actor at Driving

“In the first place,” he smiled, “O'Keefe is a swell guy but he can’t drive worth a darn. He almost burned out a clutch trying to start one of those babies. “In the second place, I'm supposed to look a lot like him. I'm one of the tallest drivers out on the Coast.” Talk about being tall, Joe Thorne is the big boy. He's been driving in | the big race since 1933 and he’s only (24 now. He was a driver in the same O'Keefe picture. Thev used four of his cars, “at 75 bucks a day per car,” he said. “I wasn’t the technical expert on that show,” groused,

Pop Stand Is Authentic

“You see the green tent where they keep the fire engines in the infield,” he asked, “and the pop stand at the south end of the pits? We had all those in the picture excatly reproduced. “I remember when was supposed to come in gate the last minute car to drive for had a policeman in a uniform there, |done diff erently. * *Oh, I said, * ‘You've got : In the picture the hero, O'Keefe,

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The chief distinction about this picture is that neither the car nor the driver will be seen in the 500-

SPEED WHIZZES INTO HOLLYWOOD

ing movie. Special” is John

get somebody in a National Guard |is supposed to go temporarily blind, [said he showed the alleged drivers {iue to the malicious machinations of | He is guided around the|

the villain. track and told where the turns are

infield. Radio's the Thing

“Anybody ‘would know you couldn't make a man driving a racing car hear even an extraordinary whistle. My idea was to install a two-way radio so that O'Keefe could be guided all the way around the track. “1 guess that wouldn't have been nearly as funny or as colorful, though,” he admitted. Cliff Bergere has been around the big time so long you'd think he'd be an old man finally content, even| anxious, for an electric runabout. On the contrary, he looks like one of those well-kept young Englishmen. He had just finished a short] {40-mile jaunt and he acted as if he'd dropped in for a spot of tea.

Cracked Many a Wall

“I've been in the stunt business| for 18 vears,” he said. “I used to

me why I didn't do it for money. As a technical expert,

Payne’s entry in “The Devil on Wheels,” forthcomBabe Stapp, driving No. 31 in today’s classic, served as the film's technical adviser.

by his partner whistling from the

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FARM BUREAU HEAD DEFENDS PROPOSED BILL

Cites Parity Payment Boost As Only Real Increase In Benefits.

In answer to criticism of the Agricultural Appropriation Bill now pending in Congress, Hassil E. Schenck, Indiana Farm Bureau president, said today that the ‘“only| real increase in benefits to farmers, is the proposal raising parity pay-| ments from $212,000,000 to $225,000,000.” “A fair analysis will show that| more than $200,000,000 of the so-| called ‘agricultural appropriation’ is| for the Bureau of Public Roads; | $113,000,000 is for the purchase of surplus commodities used very largely for relief work for urban centers; and many millions are for the en- | forcement of Food and Drug Acts,| for meat inspection and for forestry work,” he said. “It takes a far stretch of imagination to bring these items under the] heading of ‘agricultural benefits.’| While there is much talk about a $338.000,000 increase to farm subsidies, there is actually only a $13,000,000 increase.

Industrial Wages Up

“Taking the 1909-14 base period | at 100 per cent, industrial wages| this vear are at 213 per cent; wholesale prices, 112 per cent; farm taxes, 161 per cent; farm grain prices, 66 per cent, and farm cotton prices, T1 per cent. The Government is largely responsible for the high prices the farmer pays, due to the enactment of legislation favorable to labor and to industrial production. In exchange, the Government owes the farmer such similar protection as will give him a correspondingly high price for the things he sells.” Parity payments properly should When they do those stunts they not be called subsidies, Mr. Schenck rehearse them very carefully, he|said, for they will merely compen{said. They measure out and mark (sate farmers for a part of the artithe place where each machine is|ficial increase in prices of the things lgoing and where it will be hit. | they have to buy. Farmers cannot | Then they run through it slowly,|afford to pay high industrial prices, | [then a little faster, and then full [he stated, contribute to high wages] [speed The sequence he was describ-|and carry their tax and interest] ing resulted in the truck hitting the loads, unless they can dispose of taxi going at almost 80 miles an| [their products at a fair rate of ex- | hour. change. “I've never been hurt really badly,”

how to come into the pits and how to act when they'd finished a race. “I've done a lot of stunting both in automobiles and airplanes, but the worst one I ever had was in| making a picture called ‘Twelve Crowded Hours.’ “In the sequence a big 10-ton truck was supposed to crowd a taxi I was driving into a curb. Then I was supposed to turn over and the truck was to fall on me.

Getting Out Tough

“Everything worked out on schedule and it was a good job except I thought I'd never get out of the taxi.”

Income Increased

‘Miss Beauty—Plus—Brains’

Do Or who Herbert Putman is?

you know how many representatives there are in the House? Or who owns Madagascar?

By giving

the right answers to these and many other questions, Mabel Sugnet convinced the judges she was the brainiest as well as the most beautiful Government employee in Washington. Part of the prize was a

trip to the New York World's Fair

where the winner was greeted by

Fair officials, who presented her this bouquet of American Beauty roses.

PAGE 11

TRAVELERS ELECT TERRE HAUTE HEAD

L. S. Krider, of Terre Haute to|day assumed his duties as Grand | Senior Counselor of the United | Commercial Travelers. | Mr. Krider was elected at the ane nual convention of the organiza= | tion held at the Hotel Lincoln. | Other officers elected were Elmer | E. Snare, Grand Junior Counselor, | Anderson; D. P. Neidlinger, Grand | Conductor, Terre Haute; Walter A. (Jones, Past Grand Counselor, Ine dianapolis; Arthur Betz, Grand | Treasurer, Ft. Wayne; and O. G. | Arnold, Grand Secretary, South Bend. The convention in 1940 is to be held at Ft. Wayne.

‘Hound of the Baskervilles'’ Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell “Fast and Loose”

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Tim McCoy, ‘Texas Wildcats’ Tony Martin, ‘Winner Take All” 1st Chapter “Mandrake, the Magician | ELast Chapter, “Flying G-Men' News

| | Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone | {

NOW-—A Highly Exciting True

REPUBLIC SUMMONS GOST SET AT 52000

CLEVELAND, May 30 (U. P.).— The cost of serving with summonses [Congress of Industrial Organiza-| tions named defendants in the Re [public Steel Corp. suit for $7,500,000, was estimated today at $2000.

The service includes a $2 fee for

crack through so many walls and {he said. come out so well, my friends asked | | this: lup to a 20-foot cliff, there's probably | 1 $2.400.000.000 he said, | somebody “or there (his advice mostly was on how to makes for better realism that wav. | his brother. They would have been at least one thing line up, how to make a start and|But if the cliff is bigger than that,

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in the automobile.

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Strand Film Shows Corrigan Better Flier Than Actor.

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO Washington Square,” ower, Alice Faye and 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and

“Rose of with Tyrone Al JJols on at 10-90 Sorority House,” with Anne Shir3 James Ellison at 12:45, 3:35,

CIRCLE of a Nazi Spy,” with Robinson, Francis Lederer Lucas at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50

2 Hon wood, » B ton and 5:50 and

“Confessions Fdw ard G.

By JAMES THRASHER Douglas Corrigan, expected to see the 500-mile race and his film, “The Flying Irishman,” reacted in best Corrig: manner. He didn’t show up But Strand opened picture's three-day engagement with the proper ceremonies, anyway. The movie's title was put on the marquee backward Boy with sandwich boards backed along| the sidewalk in front of the theater There was a ‘wrong way’ box-office | at the rear door Despite Mr. Corrigan’s reputation | verse Irish, one has a suspicion, ! seeing his movie debut, that the voung aviator behaved in a perfectly rational manner. It may be he just couldn't face himself

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here t Rago.) LOEW'S Have Wings,” with rthur and Richard 05 6

the 3:20. 6:40 and

2 S shin the Law,” with Rut Tom Neal and Paul Kelly 10, 5:30 and 8:45.

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ndianapolis is not catering to Speedway visitors today For the Beverly Hills Country Club in Cinchhnati has announced a special program tonight planned returning race fans. Heading the list of | will be Abe Lyman, his 120 and glee club the club offers the California Revue.” Featured in this floor show Rose Blane, “Red” Pepper, Eddie Holly, Erwin Smith, Don Cummings, Florence and Bob Robinson and the Bon Sidell Trio.

JORDAN PIANISTS WILL GIVE RECITAL

Harold Triggs, head of the Jordan Conservatory of Music piano department, and Marian Laut, ber of the piano faculty, vo=-piano 8:30 day at Their follows:

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that t on the screen orchestra of In addition, “Golden Star

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while the rest of the movie unfolds. NAAOWBRAY STUDIES

The story of Mr. Corrigan’s brave) struggle and many disappointments] ' in pursuit of his chosen career is a NEW ZEALAND S BID familiar one, and rather touching. However the whole picture is done | HOLLYWOOD, May 30 (U minimum of enthusiasm | Al lan Mowbray, British actor, toPaul Kelly, Robert gion ong and | {day disclosed he was considering Eddie Quillan are the chief figures|an offer from New Zealand to make in the supporting a film there New Zealand does not now have a motion picture pro-

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pup” at Universal studio this week.

30.—Hollywood’s master and mistress of the Hoax Supreme shook hands for the first time on the set of “The Under-

d Lindsay

The hoodwinkers are Robert Cum-) mings and Margaret Lindsay. Dyed-in-the-wool Americans from Joplin, To., and Dubuque, Iowa, respectively, hoth pulled wool over casting directors’ notoriously sharp eves and] crashed the acting game via spuri{ous British guises. | Mr. Cummings worked his hoax | | from London, Miss Lindsay hers from Hollywood. His came out of failure to obtain work on Broadway, | hers from the same situation in Holywood. By raising $600 on an insurance {policy several years ago, Mr. Cummings made his way to England There he adopted an alias and ac- | cent. As ‘Blake Stanhope Conway” he posed before a theater marquee bearing his phoney name, thanks to |a 30-shilling bribe. Returning to New York, Mr. Con-| way, nee Cummings, found himself in great demand because of his * ‘ex- | tensive British background.” An-| {other hoax, in which he posed as a | Texan, drawl and all, fooled a Texas-born movie director and| learned him his first Hollywood | “break” in “So Red the Rose.” Miss Lindsay, armed with a mere | vear's experience on the English | stage, adopted an English accent, | tested for and won her first film | role in the all-British picture, | “Cavalcade.” Not until long after was she “exposed.” |

GOING TO FAIR (N. Y.) | ‘HOLLYWOOD, May 30 (U. P).—

Miriam Hopkins and her husband, | Director Anatole Litvak,

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were to] | leave here today for a vacation trip. in New York and a visit to the World's Fair.

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Charles Bover will sail for France

upon completion of his starring role with Irene Dunn in John M. Stahl’s production, “The Modern Cinderella.” The actor will do a picture, “Le Corsaire,” to be produced in Paris, and will return to America in October to appear with Deanns Durbin in “First Love.”

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each writ and the transportation cost of process servers. Counsel for Republic had the! (summonses printed to save the cost {of paying the Federal Court Cler Ks | office $3.30 for each one, or a total of $2475. The service began vesterday. They {said deputies would begin tomorrow [to reach defendants in Youngstown, [Canton, Warren, Masillon and Niles, O. Republic brought the suit last | week against the C. 1. O., the Steel | Workers Organizing Cominittee— | sponsor of the 1937 “little steel” | istrike, C. I. O. President John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, head of the

INCREASED SAFETY S. W. O. C, and others.

WASHINGTON, May 30 (U.P) It charged that its loss of busiThe Air Safety Board of the QCivill ness and extraordinary expenses reAeronautics Authority revealed vo. (SURIng Srom ite ie I It day that during the last six months $2 500.0 t asked three-lold dam-

“During the last six years pay(ments to farmers have amounted to so that the surplus problem has been partially met and | the farm income has been increased $17.000,000,000,” he stated. “Any money expended by the Federal Government that yields as much return as does the money appro-| priated for Soil Conservation and| parity payments, should be looked | upon as a real investment, he] added.

AIRLINES REPORT

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PLAYERS RETURN

The Indianapolis Symphony Or-|

| gerald will be starting their third senger miles per passenger fatalily year under Fabien Sevitzky's direc-|

tion, while Arthur Deming has been with the orchestra since its founding by Ferdinand Schaefer. Mr.

Deming also has been reappointed | personnel manager and chief libra- | ['rian.

The oboe section again will con-|

sist of Arno Mariotti, Alvin Etler

and Harvey McGuire.

of 1938 domestic scheduled air lines] A ho CE by ‘the api flew 76,645,172 passenger miles per | Anti- ust Ac

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ARMY MULES OKEHED

WASHINGTON, May 30 (U.

Congress today.

Worn out mules and horses may [750 officers and members of the Pe permitted to graze in green pas-

[tures until natural death overtakes

- | them, under the terms of a bill ap~ to

[proved by the Senate and sent the White House.

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No pilots were killed during this

| period, the Board said, but four das- | sengers died in two fatal accidents. Including foreign lines, the report |said, scheduled air carriers in the | United States flew 34,390,026 passen- § miles per passenger fatalily. This compares with 10,678,186 pas-

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